Fit Tip Friday #76

📃Announcement 

Welcome to this week's Fit Tip Friday.This week, I want to share some eating principles that have helped me ignore the blast of the nutritional noise out there, and instead have helped me focus on the simple notes that deliver a pleasing sound each and every time. 

📃 Noisy Nutrition

Just start researching nutrition, and you are going to encounter a cacophony of convoluted nutritional sounds. There are noisy paleo people, keto folk, no-carb die hards, calorie-counting Karens, food chemistry geniuses, plate Puritans, and on and on and on. Everyone has an opinion, everyone can back their opinion up by hoards of research, and everyone shouts it out all at you the moment you start trying to learn how to eat healthy. This all becomes deafening for someone like me who just wants to eat dinner with my family in peace. So what principles should we actually follow?And as a Christian, how do I think about food in a way that I can eat and drink unto the Lord? (1 Corinthians 10:31). 

📃 Animals, Fruits, Roots, and Shoots

This is not a comprehensive theological take on food. I'm also not a doctor or nutritionist.But I am a guy who takes food seriously, wants to help my wife and kids cut out the nutritional noise, wants to eat food for God's glory, wants to avoid gluttony, and wants to enjoy what I eat. Investigation begins with a question, and here's the first question I've tried to answer... What food should I try to eat? And I have two suggestions. 1) AnimalsAnimals, among other things, are great sources of both protein and fat. And there are a lot of options.

• The cow: steak, ground beef, dairy, cheeses, etc...

• The chicken: eggs, thighs, legs, breasts, etc...

• The turkey: ground turkey, thighs, legs, breasts, etc...

• The pig: pork chops, bacon, etc...

• The fish: salmon, tuna, sardines, white fish, etc...

• The lamb, the deer, the shrimp, the crab, etc...

2) Fruits, Roots, and ShootsProduce, among other things, are a great source of carbs.  And there are also a lot of options.

• Fruits: apples, bananas, kiwi, grapes, berries, peachiness, avocados, etc...

• Roots: sweet potatoes, potatoes, carrots, etc...

• Shoots: grains, rice, spinach, greens, etc... 

The focus on animals, fruit, roots, and shoots has served like a volume dial for me whenever I start getting sensory overload.I simply turn the volume down to 0, where I ask what animals, fruits, roots, and shoots can I eat, and I restart there. This simple starting point can launch you into a wide world full of the beautiful sounds of all the foods that God made for us to enjoy, with thanksgiving (1 Timothy 4:3-4).   

📃Links & Resources 

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📃Beyond LabelsThis book is a resource developed by a nutritionist and farmer, to help the food-lay person understand what's in your food, what the labels on your food actually mean, and how to gradually improve what you eat. This is written by Joel Saladin and Dr. Sina McCullough. This is also an Amazon affiliate link, and as an Amazon associate I earn on qualifying purchases. But I've gone to this book again, and again, and again to help me make sense of the nutritional noise out there.  

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📃Recommended Home Gym EquipmentAs always, this is my recommended list of home gym equipment. These are affiliate links. 1a. Kettlebell Kings - The Quality Purchase1b. Lifeline Kettlebell - The Budget Purchase2. Pull-Up Bar3. Headphones 4. An Ab Roller5. Exercise Mat6. A Jump Rope7. A Watch Pedometer8. SafeRingz - A Silicone Wedding BandThese are affiliate links, and as an Amazon associate I earn on qualifying purchases. But these are all equipment that I have personally used or highly recommend!

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